Date of Award
Spring 1964
Document Type
Thesis - Restricted
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
First Advisor
Ishii, T. K.
Second Advisor
Horgan, J.
Third Advisor
Battocletti, Joseph
Abstract
The operation of inexpensive, packaged, commercially available tunnel diodes at frequencies several times the theoretical frequency limits has been experimentally demonstrated. Through the introduction of a new concept in the interpretation of the tunnel diode equivalent circuit, theoretical verification that the tunnel diode can generate frequencies above the presently accepted resistive cutoff frequency limit is presented. Multi-frequency, simultaneous, fundamental oscillations were experimentally obtained and are here-in reported and theoretically verified. A new phenomena in the realm of tunnel diode oscillators, package resonance, was experimentally discovered and a basic, theoretical explanation of the same is presented.
Recommended Citation
Jaskolski, Stanley V., "Investigation of the Tunnel Diode As a Generator of Microwave and Millimeter Wave Frequencies" (1964). Master's Theses (1922-2009) Access restricted to Marquette Campus. 4848.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/theses/4848